Alison Gerlach is a successful entrepreneur and business executive with expertise in and passion for building businesses. After doing extensive research in optimizing the business start-up process, Gerlach went on to build businesses in industries including technology, entertainment services, consumer packaged goods, and professional services. Prior to her entrepreneurial endeavors, she was a strategic management consultant and an overseas investment banker.
In addition to building and growing her current venture, "Allie's Edibles", Gerlach spends a great deal of her time teaching, consulting to both start-up and large corporations, and giving lectures to both business and academic audiences on optimizing the business start-up process.
Alison Gerlach earned a BA in economics from Cornell University and an MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management.
The other thing you have to sort of prepare for is failure and it's not a negative thing to say that, I'm not being dower, I'm not you know saying oh it will never work, but it is the most likely scenario of what's going to happen, so you might as well recognize it coming, and if you haven't prepare...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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